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CEP does a great job with development and production of our computer education and keyboarding titles. They have really come through when the project required extra effort! — Dave, South-Western|Cengage Learning
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Team Members
Mary Lou Motl
President
Mary Lou is the founder and president of Custom Editorial Productions, Inc., which began operations in 1982. Her degrees are in biology and genetics, and she began her publishing career as an acquisitions editor in the New York office of an international publisher of scientific books and journals. Her broad areas of responsibility were biology, geology, and environmental sciences. She then did a stint as assistant regional director and manager of the editorial group for an environmental consulting firm. Overall, Mary Lou has worked in the publishing industry for 36 years, and 27 of those years have been at CEP. Her primary focus is on fostering client relationships, including developing bids for clients and negotiating contracts on individual projects and series.
E-Mail: ml_motl@customeditorial.com
Linda Allen
Editorial Manager
With 30 years of experience in educational publishing and degrees in English, psychology, and information systems, Linda is well prepared to manage CEP’s editorial team and the range of services they provide. Linda’s experience as vice president and director of production at a major educational publisher and later as director of content development for an educational software development company has refined her skills in the educational publishing arena. She is especially attentive to client requirements, troubleshooting intensely at the beginning of each project to ensure a smooth process no matter how complex the undertaking.
E-Mail: lallen@customeditorial.com
Rob Himmler
Financial Manager
Rob is a CPA with a degree in accounting and business administration, and he has worked in publishing for nearly a decade. In addition to handling the financial aspects of the business, Rob also manages the CEP teams dedicated to standards correlation projects in subject areas such as history, economics, civics, geography, and language arts. Before joining CEP, Rob worked for 17 years at an accounting firm where he rose to the position of partner. Always committed to supporting entrepreneurs, Rob subsequently became controller at a software development firm before joining CEP.
E-Mail: rob_himmler@customeditorial.com
Rose Marie Kuebbing
Project Editor
Rose Marie earned her degree in biology with minors in English and communications. With hands-on experience in feature writing, technical writing, editorial management, and developmental editing spanning more than 20 years, Rose Marie is adept at guiding the writing process and keeping authors on target for projects ranging from multi-component software training programs to vocational textbooks. In addition to her management skills,
Rose Marie has valuable expertise in writing and developing manuscripts on high-tech software applications.
E-Mail: rm_kuebbing@customeditorial.com
Jean Findley
Project Editor
With her degree in English, Jean had worked as an editor, production coordinator, and production editor at two major educational publishers for 19 years before coming to CEP in 2000. Here, she uses her well-honed editorial and organizational skills to oversee many of the diverse publications that pass through the editorial process at CEP. Although she has managed books on a wide range of subjects, Jean has acquired particular expertise in doing the hands-on developmental editing of books covering computer/software topics, business/marketing/economics, and keyboarding.
E-Mail: j_findley@customeditorial.com
Jan Clavey
Assistant Project Editor
After earning a degree in English, Jan has acquired more than 15 years of experience in editing, proofreading, and production. She has expertise in hands-on editing and proofreading, and she has applied these skills to high-level medical and pharmaceutical, as well as computer and technology, publications. Jan also manages the nuts and bolts of many standards correlation projects, especially those in language arts, by confirming the standards with the client, writing detailed instructions for the correlators, and troubleshooting from start to finish.
E-Mail: jan_clavey@customeditorial.com
Extended Team Network
The CEP team also includes tried-and-true authors, technical writers and editors, developmental editors, copyeditors, compositors, proofreaders, designers, and artists whose targeted involvement gives us the flexibility to handle any assignment efficiently, whether it requires basic services or a specialized approach created specifically for the project.
Ted & Dusty
Company Canines
On their occasional visits to the office, Mary Lou’s good-natured Pomeranians contribute generously to corporate morale. Ted, the 12-year-old red guy, is good at catching the doggie football in all environments—heroically and with no concern for his health or safety. Although more than three years old, Dusty is still a pup, or at least he behaves like one. His two main preoccupations are zooming around, both indoors and out, and eating mulch.
CEP team members worked together on a project of a different kind—in the kitchens of the Midwest Culinary Institute—when the company celebrated its 25th anniversary in February 2007 with a “Do-It-Yourself” luncheon. Click here to see photos.